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Brigadier General John Pegram, LEE’S Paradoxical Cavalier
	Pegram was a Virginia gentleman from an aristocratic family. He was also a professional soldier who answered his state’s call to rebellion. In battle he was courageous to a fault, and his officers and men generally responded to his leadership by example. But there was something wrong about his generalship.

The Early Civil War Perspectives of an Illinois Soldier as Reflected in His Letters: Galesburg to Vicksburg.
	This essay provides a window into the thoughts, perspectives, attitudes and opinions of a soldier who fought in the war and left a legacy of twelve unpublished letters - letters that are probably unread outside his family. This collection of correspondence provides a wealth of materials for students of the war over 130 years later.

The Fighting Ellets Ingenuity, Courage, Nepotism and Corruption?
	In early 1862, the Union forces operating along the Mississippi River faced a potentially grave new threat from Confederate ironclads. Major General Charles Halleck, in command of the Department of Missouri in St. Louis, sent an urgent request to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton requesting assistance.1 Stanton had just the man to solve Halleck’s problem.

U.S. Grant and Operations
	While Grant’s strategic vision was vitally important to victory, this paper concentrates on his operational, as opposed to tactical or strategic, innovation. Much as been written about the North’s successful strategy.2 Many other books describe the tactical changes that occurred during the war,3 but few authors highlight the operational change introduced by Grant.

Appomattox to Red River Twilight Comes to the Trans-Mississippi and The End of the Civil War in Shreveport
	This paper paints with a broad brush, for it covers the final days of the War between the States in the capitol cities of Richmond and Shreveport, including the attempt by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to travel the 900 miles between the two in April and May of 1865. It will give emphasis to developments in and around Shreveport, as they are less known. Now to do justice to the latter, I need to tell you something of Shreveport as it was, and would become, in the war years.

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